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Re: viewing entries using slapcat
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 07:28:50AM +0200, Pierangelo Masarati wrote:
>> Neo - wrote:
>> > Hi all, I use a ldapbrowser (its open source java ldapbrowser) to
>> view all my openldap entries.
>> > Im able to read all the attribute values when i view through the
>> ldapbrowser.
>> >
>> > But when i do slapcat and generate a ldif file i see some attribute
>> like this
>> >
>> > mail:: IGF2ZXJ5cG9obG1hbjM3QHdlYnN0ZXIuZWR1
>> >
>> >
>> > but when i view the same entry in ldapbrowser its fine.
>> > Any one know why entry looks encrypted using slapcat.
>>
>> For security reasons, I guess.
>
> I'd think for reasons of not wanting to lose data due to
> non-ascii characters (charset/locale settings...).
> This is for exchanging contents of the database.
>
> And btw, this is not encryption but encoding.
damn'd! so "base64 -d" is not a password cracker?!?
p.
Ing. Pierangelo Masarati
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